London Drama News

Drama Teaching Opportunity in China

Y.H English and Drama provides English drama learning programmes to Chinese students in Shanghai, China.
Wanted: two experienced Drama teachers for our English Summer Schools from 8th to 21st July 2018 in Shanghai, China.

China return air tickets will be paid.
Accommodation and some meals will also be provided.
Teaching hours: 4-5 hours/day 5 days a week.
Full information here.
Contact us at vyiwu@hanlanedu.com
Or email London Drama at londondrama1@gmail.com

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Publications

Order in the Chaosby Danielle Mackenzie

This new practical resource book by Danielle Mackenzie published by London Drama provides teachers with seven exciting units of work and materials designed for the GCSE Edexcel Drama Examintion, New Specification, helping to organise "Order" in all that potential "Chaos".

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The Road £8.99

The Road £8.99

Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision.

This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:

meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010

features detailed, structured schemes of work

utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis

places pupils’ understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities

will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3

will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.

About the Author(s)Joe Penhall is the author of the award winning play Blue/Orange (National Theatre, 2000). Other recent work includes the screenplay Enduring Love.Cormac McCarthy is the author of No Country for Old Men.

Coming up

Masks and Half Masks with Trestle

This fun, accessible workshop from Trestle Theatre Company will help strengthen your practice of using Trestle full masks and half masks as a tool for both theatre and social development. The work consists of experiencing exercises and learning teaching techniques to develop physical awareness, mask performance and creative devising.
More information and book at Trestle
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Book via Eventbrite.

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Organisations

STEP is a borough-wide partnership linking the theatre community and education and youth sector in the London Borough of Southwark. STEP aims to equalise, extend and deepen the theatre and drama experience of all young people living in Southwark through the development of strategic partnerships between schools, youth and community groups and theatres and performing arts organisations. STEP's objective is to work closely with Southwark schools, youth and community groups and theatres and performing arts organisations to develop creative approaches to learning and provide innovative projects which stimulate children and young people's personal development and contribute to their educational attainment.
Find out more here.